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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 40

Day after day he was to be seen watching the wooers, till, one morning, he felt that he knew the plan of the walls by heart, and took his place by the side of the others.

Who acts: Day, prince · What happens: see, watch, feel, know, take, plan · To what, where: prince, wooers, plan, place, walls

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

nsubjcasenmodnsubjaux:passmarkaux:passacl:relcladvcldetobjpunctcasepunctnummodoblpunctnsubjmarknsubjadvcldetobjcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctccconjnmod:possobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootDayPROPNafterADPdayNOUNhePRONwasAUXtoPARTbeAUXseenVERBwatchingVERBtheDETwooersNOUN,PUNCTtillADP,PUNCToneNUMmorningNOUN,PUNCThePRONfeltVERBthatSCONJhePRONknewVERBtheDETplanNOUNofADPtheDETwallsNOUNbyADPheartNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtookVERBhisPRONplaceNOUNbyADPtheDETsideNOUNofADPtheDETothersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DayDayPROPNNumber=Sing9 watchingnsubj
2afterafterADP_3 daycase
3daydayNOUNNumber=Sing1 Daynmod
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 seennsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 seenaux:pass
6totoPART_8 seenmark
7bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf8 seenaux:pass
8seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 dayacl:relcl
9watchingwatchVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 feltadvcl
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 wooersdet
11wooerswooerNOUNNumber=Plur9 watchingobj
12,,PUNCT_16 morningpunct
13tilltillADP_16 morningcase
14,,PUNCT_16 morningpunct
15oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 morningnummod
16morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing9 watchingobl
17,,PUNCT_9 watchingpunct
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 feltnsubj
19feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
20thatthatSCONJ_22 knewmark
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 knewnsubj
22knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 feltadvcl
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 plandet
24planplanNOUNNumber=Sing22 knewobj
25ofofADP_27 wallscase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 wallsdet
27wallswallNOUNNumber=Plur24 plannmod
28bybyADP_29 heartcase
29heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing27 wallsnmod
30,,PUNCT_32 tookpunct
31andandCCONJ_32 tookcc
32tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 feltconj
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 placenmod:poss
34placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing32 tookobj
35bybyADP_37 sidecase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 sidedet
37sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing32 tookobl
38ofofADP_40 otherscase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 othersdet
40othersotherNOUNNumber=Plur37 sidenmod
41..PUNCT_19 feltpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepast · passiveDay after day not said hereprincevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2watchgerundDay after daythe wooersmorningvn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wooer=Theme
3feelpastprincevn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4knowpastprincethe plan of the walls by heartvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus
5takepastprince not said hereprince's placeby the side of the othersvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
6planthe walls by heartnom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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